Objectives. NLR (neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio) and PLR (platelet-lymphocyte ratio) are prognostic markers of diff erentiated thyroid cancers. In our study, we evaluated NLR, PLR and C-reactive protein (CRP) for predicting the occurence of diff erentiated thyroid cancer. Th is is the fi rst study that compares NLR and PLR to C-reactive protein indiff erantiated thyroid cancer not only papillary cancer but also folliculer cancer.Methods. Th is study includes 51 papillary carcinoma, 42 papillary microcarcinoma and 31 folliculer carcinoma patients attending to our outpatient Endocrinology Clinic at Erzurum Region Training and Research Hospital between 2009 and 2014. Th e control group include 50 age, sex and body mass index matched healty subjects. Blood counts and CRP were measured at the day before surgery. Th yroglobulin was measured aft er 6 months of operation.Results. Th ere were positive correlations between tumor diameter, age, white blood cell (WBC) and thyroglobulin levels. Th ere were also positive correlation between NLR, PLR and CRP levels.Conclusion. In our study, we found out that higher NLR and PLR was associated with higher levels of thyroglobulin which indicates worse survival. CRP levels were also associated with poorer tumor profi le but the determining rate was lower according to ROC analysis

Colposcopically-directed biopsies of the cervix are indicated even when inflammatory cellular changes without atypia persist despite therapy.

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Lipomatous meningiomas are extremely rare subtypes of benign meningiomas and are classified as metaplastic meningioma in the World Health Organization classification. We present a 77-year-old man presented with the history of a gradually intensifying headache for the last 3 months. A right frontoparietal mass was detected on his cranial magnetic resonance imaging. The patient was operated on via a right frontoparietal craniotomy, and histopathological diagnosis was lipomatous meningioma. Distinctive characteristics of lipomatous meningiomas were discussed with special emphasis to importance of immunohistochemical examinations, particularly for its differentiation from the tumors showing similar histology though having more aggressive character.

Acidosis is the most dangerous complication of subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). Although the carotid bodies (CBs) network is essential for pH regulation, neither binuclear neurons (BNN) nor their functions have been mentioned so far in the literature. The aim of this study was to investigate the crucial roles of mononuclear (MNN) or BNN in CBs on acidosis following SAH. Twenty-five hybrid rabbits were used. Five rabbits were used as a control group, six for sham, and the remaining 14 rabbits were used as the study group by injection of 1 mL of autologous arterial blood into the cisterna magna to produce SAH. Normal and degenerated MNN/BNN densities of CBs were counted by stereological methods. The mean blood pH values were: 7.362 AE 0.041 in the control group; 7.324 AE 0.064 in sham, 7.272 AE 0.062 in the SAH group. The degenerated MNN and BNN values were 5 AE 1/mm 3 and 9 AE 3/mm 3 in the control group; 15 AE 5/ mm 3 and 22 AE 6/mm 3 in sham, 965 AE 113/mm 3 and 1532 AE 176/mm 3 in the SAH group. Mean pH values were under 7.212 AE 0.130 in animals with prominent degenerated BNN. The differences between MNN/pH changes were significant between the SAH and control groups (P < 0.005); whereas BNN/pH values were significant between the SAH and sham groups (pH < 0.005), SAH and control (P < 0.0001). BNN degeneration could result in more severe acidosis than MNN following SAH which has not been described so far.